A couple of days weeks ago CheckGmail stopped working with a Error: Incorrect username or password dialog. Looking through the CheckGmail sourcforge forums,  I ended up finding a solution.

If CheckGmail fails to autheciate your logins–  four possible solutions for fixing the authentication bug

1. The quick and dirty fix is to run CheckGmail with the -no_cookies flag. The drawback is that you lose some functionality (actions such as marking as spam and archiving). You’ll need to update your startup/menu/startup session item to start CheckGmail using this command flag. checkgmail -no_cookies
2. Download the latest development version of CheckGmail from SVN which includes a real fix for the recent 401 unauthorise issue.. A clever CheckGmail developer included an update feature for checkgmail for just a  circumstances just like this one In terminal, run:

Voila, fixed.

I love Bill Maher.

Facebook’s XMPP/Jabber integration is not quite completed yet, but meanwhile you can use Facebook from within Pidgin.This plugin isn’t only for pidgin, but other libpurple messengers (perhaps even Adium and other projects). It syncs with Facebook Chat IM service without the necessity of an API key. Though its relatively stable, there are some bugs like the friend does not appear online or replies are delayed, etc. But a very good idea, at any rate. It’s clearly a work in progress.

One of the Facebook plugin features that I really enjoy is the ability to set your facebook status through Pidgins status.

The pros of using the plugin are pretty obvious – all your contacts are  integrated to one place on Pidgin. That equates to one less reason to log directly into Facebook and this in turn saves some time and makes you a bit more more productive. Pidgin keeps logs of all IM conversations, which is handy if you want records of your conversations kept.

Image Credit: http://www.makeuseof.com/

The plugin can perform tasks besides send/receive messages, including the adding and removing of friends, having your facebook notifications be received from Pidgin.

Installation is simple on Debian based distros since they provide .deb package. If you’d like to install the the plugin manually, you would usually copy one of the .so files into /usr/lib/purple-2/ or /usr/lib/pidgin/ (for Mamemo based operating systems). You can also built from source typing

sudo make libfacebook.so
and
sudo make install to point the install to the right directory.

You can get the plugin here: http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/

Edit: Also note there’s an icon pack which can be downloaded here: http://pidgin-facebookchat.googlecode.com/files/facebook_icons.zip. Extract facebook_icons.zip to ‘/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols’. Though, this blog no longer caters to Windows users, I can only speculate Windows may have a similar directory for the icon pack, but in in ‘C:\Program Files\’ (\Pidgin) which is roughly the equalivent of /usr/share.

history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head -15

(I made it display the 15 most used commands, instead of the top 10)

480 su
143 cd
137 ssh
137 startx
86 htop
52 make
43 slocate
37 dmesg
32 iwconfig
30 sh
12 cat
10 rm
9 irssi
8 exit
7 ls

I use root way too much, am frequently changing into directories, frequently on remote computers, frequently initializing an X session, frequently using process viewers, frequently maintaining groups of programs, frequently finding files by name securely, frequently printing and controlling the kernel ring buffers, constantly configuring my wireless network, frequently using shell , frequently in the need to concatenate files and print their outputs, frequently removing files and direcorties, frequently using irssi, and always in constant need to list files in a directory.

Mercurynews writes: “U.C. Berkeley student’s Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt”

Journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a loud demonstration, and forced him in a jail cell last week, but they weren’t prepared for him to Twitter his way out of there.

He was taking photos at a protest, when the police grabbed him. Before he was released they also grabbed his camera memory chip. But they forgot about Twitter.

Twitter net contacted Cal and the American Embassy. In short, UCB hired an Egyptian lawyer and got James out.

Read more here: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8934411?IADID

Flock Testing, finally getting back to Flock blogging.

Hmm.

Tags: flock, broswer, web, test

In honor of Pi Day, here I prsent you Hard N Phirm with their song ‘Pi’. The lyrics are here (Provided by LeoLyrics) . If you want to hear a recitation of pi digits again, YTMND is there for that.

Hard N’ Phirm also has a new video, CPBS: Trace Elements – posted a few days ago.

Shane M. Mathews developed this neat feature under the Google Summer of Code 2007 program. OO Impress prsentations are being renovated and getting a face-lift. It could be a cure to dreary PowerPoint presentations we’re used to seeing.

• Flipping tiles
• Outside turning cube
• Revolving circles
• Turning helix
• Inside turning cube
• Fall
• Turn around
• Iris
• Turn down
• Rochade

Sys Requirements and Driver/X.org compatibility:

It’s not required that you install compiz, but the graphics and rendering specs are comparable to Compiz’s demands.It’s said that 2.4 will come sometime March 2008. If you’re not so patient, an experimental dev snapshot binary for Linux is available (only for Linux now . You can fetch it off BitTorrent(yes, it’s solidly legal) here.

Cheers,

Larry

So, last weekend I went to SCaLE(the 6th annual So. Cal Linux Expo) A great weekend it was. It was hosted at the LA Westin Hotel. I happen to man at the Ubuntu booth(of course we[myself and the Ubuntu California LoCo] weren’t official affiliates of Ubuntu) -which wouldn’t be made possible(and awesome) without the main architects of it all, Neal(Ubuntu-California LoCo Group Leader), Nathan. The convention exceeded my expectations and then some. And it was PACKED!

Just to give you a general sense of perception

Photo Credit: http://lxer.com

ArsTechncica also has coverage over SCaLE: http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/02/12/ars-at-scale-the-exhibit-hall

If you key in closely on the Ubuntu booth picture, you can see me(looking down) I’m adjacent to Nathan(guy in the tan shirt), relative to his left; troubleshooting this lady’s issue with Kubuntu and her wi-fi.

Photo Credit: arstechnica.com

I guess that could present proof for the skeptics.

Anyway, I attended on Saturday(the main expo day). And it was very lively and although from ones perepective, the place may look small, it’s not as small as you would think;it accommodated about 80 booths( Like Sun,Google,RedHat,OpenMoko,Linux Astronomy ,Fedora,LinuxChix,Tux Droid,BSD,and all the other major Linux/Open source companies,and many many more). All of the booths, and what they presented was awesome. Our booth had countless visitors- we were quite a big attraction at the Expo. I came in the expo floor with Greg early around 8:30 A.M after we had been finished with all the ticket processing and clerical stuff. We set up the booth early and found just enough time to go to Jono Bacon’s keynote(He’s the Ubuntu Community Manager if you didn’t know). It was situated in the Westin Hotel theater was packed side to side- there weren’t enough seats, so we had to stand in the back with 50 other people. There was also another theater in the back that had big projector display of Jono’s presentation for those who couldn’t make it in the main theater. He was a relaxed and engaging while still delivering his theme about the achievements of the Linux desktop. He made wanted us to know that success from the Linux Desktop doesn’t come from the companies but from open-source community. He had a few humorous(He’s British) snippets during the presentation. The conferences were awesome, I attended Seth’s(Member of our LoCo Seth Kenlon’s talk) presentation on Video codecs- which to Seth’s amazement had quite a few laughs, including mine. It was very informative and insightful. Another that I “managed” to attend was “Peace, Love, and Rockets,” presented by HP Chief Linux Technologist Bdale Garbe . It about the world of model rocketry, avanonics in general, and how his hobby influenced into the realm of open source software and hardware. And his fights and dilemmas with the proprietary closed sourced/ and not to mention horribly documented devices involved in hobby model rocketry.

In the sum of it all, the convention was productive and awesome. At the end I got to meet and shake Jono Bacon’s hand. I wouldn’t change anything about this year’s SCaLE, they perfected this one! This was a great experience, I look forward to SCaLE7x.

Working with an Arkansas Law Firm/Wal-Mart/and Tysons Foods? Take those ‘35 years’ and subtract it by 28 and get her actual experience, 7 years working in the New York senate. Altough the opposing candidate Obama may not have that many years in the Senate – his extensive resume and past careers is no where near comparable.

Sigh…….

Curse you Hilary, it’s really a shame.

Comic from Cyanide & Happiness series by Explosm.net.

Image copyright @ Explosm.net.

This guy seems to have too much time on his hands, but that’s an understatement. Despite that, he’s quite talented and waggish.

If you irritated with top’s inability to scroll and are looking to opt to an alernative- look no further than htop!

<|Shrinked to Fit column width-double click for a larger dimesion|>

What’s so unique and special about it?

1. Visual Load monitors are nice and help
2. Color schemed
3. The interface is can be modified: colors, view modes, columns and pretty much everything else not noted.
4. Very customizable-I can view processes in tree mode and view dependencies like in Gnome-System-Monitor
5. You can scroll!!!!!!! and works with your mouse
6. Nice Search feature
7. What else do you need? Pretty and functional in CLI.

Note Ubuntu users and others alike. If you use the apt package manager and have the right sources and you simply type in your broswer of choice(well I shouldn’t say that, Firefox in my circumstance)

apt:htop

Have fun htop.

-Larry

This guide is only intended for those who implement WEP /WPA-PSK /WPA2-PSK encryptions

Before we begin the actual guide, a few preliminary things on the agenda:

Find your wireless card’s Interface Name; you must know the proper interface of the wireless connection. To find this you can use the lshw command Which lists certain hardware details. Since you only want to discover network interfaces you find that by executing the following command:

lshw -C network

the flag -C displays the alias for the given class of the hardware. I choose it over ‘lspci/’lsusb” as it prints me a more accurate description.You may see multiple interfaces, find the one that parallels the wireless device in question.

Also make sure you have the configured your wpa_supplicant. The package, look here: http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/

And here’s my output:

*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:17:3f:3c:b8:02
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+netmw245 driverversion=1.45+Belkin,08/30/2006,1.0.1.8 ip=10.10.10.3 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

Yes, the dreaded Belkin pre-N adapter using poorly written marvel chipset drivers, netmw254 being one of them. Currently using the g specification since I returned the corresponding Belkin route. In any event, I just should get back to topic.

For a WEP Connection(assumed you have your ASCII password or 64-bit/128-bit hex key)

To initiate connectivity you must execute the following commands in command line

sudo ifconfig <logical name> down

[<<this brings down the interface for the specified interface>>]

sudo dhclient -r <interface/logical name>

[<<Release IP address akin with specified interface>>]

now with the IP address released we bring up the interface

sudo ifconfig <logical name> up

[<<this brings up the interface for the specified interface>>]

Now the ESSID/Password entry, commands are as follows:

sudo iwconfig <logical name> essid "essid_must_be_entered_in_quotes"

Now for the ASCII password entry or hex key

sudo iwconfig <interface> key 's:ASCII KEY' [<< discern the s: prefix as it is needed, do not use quotes>>]

or

sudo iwconfig <interface> key HEXKEY

Now we specify the mode, by default my infrastructure mode is ‘managed’,but the modes aviable managed (default), ad-hoc or master. In managed mode, it forces the wireless to attempt and connect to the specified ESSID and nothing else.

sudo iwconfig <interface> mode Managed [<< ah-hoc and master is also aviable>>]

Now we request an IP address from our DNS server

sudo dhclient <logical name>

Same story with WPA-psk/WPA2-psk, just make sure you configure wpa_supplicant properly in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

In some cases you might need to run wpa_supplicant.conf. Also if you’re

In some instances, an atheros chip set would most likely have the madwifi(assuming you have it installed)

My input was: sudo wpa_supplicant -w -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

Usually the output of a successful connection results in something like this. Here’s my output

It attained the IP address of 10.10.10.3 in my output.

This guide was heavily referenced from kevdog from ubuntu forums

Cheers! You never know when the GUI might fail you.

-Larry

The theme of the presidential election made clear to everyone

via Youtube by Hugh Atkin
Music:feat. Bowie

Here’s a video clip of Prof. Steve Sawin of Fairfield University rapping about Perelman’s Proof of the Poincaré Conjecture [wiki], to the tune of Snoop Dogg and Pharrell William’s “Drop it Like it’s Hot.” Link [YouTube] | Steve’s website

Diz be the words n’ shit, graciously provided in .pdf format yo’: Words

Check it that shit out B!

Your Grade: A

98% You Passed with an Excellent Score!

I could pass an 8th grade science quiz! Yay.. congrats to me.-_-.. This couldn’t be made possible without the educationally stimulating support of MY own 8th Grade Science teacher. The renowned Pete Accardi! Give him props, without him This ‘achievement’ wouldn’t be made possible! Other people that deserve honorable mention; not limited but including Gregory

Here’s to you Mr.Accardi!

If you fold a bank note and obscure it in a way where it matches onto a photo of a Celebrity, for instance, President  Grant over Pitt, never mind that doesn’t sound too promising. Anyway the outcome looks really witty.  You can glance at more on  freakingnews.

Photo: freakingnews

For all of those in their head in the gutter, FILF stands First Lady Intent on Liberties and freedom; Coined from The Daily Show.

NOT FLILF

Janet Huckabee 

Elizabeth Kucinich

 Confirmed FLILF

Thoughts-Opinions-Questions-Ramblings-Rants-Complaints-Suggestions-Proposals

-Ideas-Recommendations?

Remember how I said Guake might have some issues? Well it does, but I don’t blame it, it’s still in alpha stage. When I attempt to run Guake, I get the following error message:

"Guake can not init! Gconf Error. Have you installed guake.schemas properly?"

Since I didn’t compile this from source, but instead install a packaged .deb(deb can be found from the official Guake site,.deb this causes a few conflicts. A few reasons being

1) It doesn’t comply with the Debian policies in where configuration files should be placed. There are two ways to fix this. The long counterintuitive but simple way using Synpatic(or whatever package manager you use) . For all practical purposes I’ll show how it’s done in Synpatic. We’re looking for what directory the guake.schemas file was installed. Search guake in synpatic(Edit>), or ctrl+F.Navigate to properties of the package, look under the Installed Files tab. That way you’ll find exactly what and where the package placed the files. Look for guake.schemas. A command line way, a much quicker way if you don’t want to opt the synpatic mess, is searching it with the slocate/locate/find command. It might take a few instances to index all the files,but it’s my preferred way.

In root type

updatedb

After you’ve indexed your files, search for for guake.schemas, I used slocate:

Contacting the Guake dev, he issued me this command to properly install the schemas file(assumed you’re using GTK)

gconftool-2 --install-schema-file=/usr/local/etc/gconf/schemas/guake.schemas

My guake.schemas wasn’t located in

/usr/local/etc/, but /usr/etc/gconf/schemas/guake.schemas.

Have fun with Guake!
There are other alternatives of Guake, check out Tilda(Added true transparency!) and Yakuake(Yet Another Kuake)for KDE. Guake is just a GTK+ of all these.

Cheers!

-Larry

Everything2.com explains how to crack a key less entry pad on a vehicle

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There’s no real excuse as to why I haven’t been active on ma blag; moreover, the readers. I’ve reached an all time low hit traffic, ~53 visits in 15 day intervals, that’s comparable to… ± 4 visits a day.That’s a little beside the point. The point is I’m back! Came across a really neat utility, Guake, a drop down terminal for GNOME. Quake+GNOME, kind of…. It shares the same drop down functionality you’ll find in a traditional drop-down consoles of first person shooter games..What’s so special about Guake is it gives you the ability to work in terminal without switching in between windows. Saves a great deal of time, especially if you use CLI on a regular basis. Still in alapha, so don’t be shocked if you encounter issues. I’ll be watching this project closely.

http://site.guake-terminal.org/

Google is rolling out IMAP support for Gmail accounts. IMAP provides a better method to access your email from multiple devices. For instance if check your email at school, on your cell, and again at home, IMAP ensures that new inbox is accessible from any device at any given time. IMAP offers a more stable experience over. Where POP by personal experience is prone to lose of emails/ or downloading the same email various times. IMAP is favored of POP cos’ of two-way syncing capabilities between email-clients and web based GMail.

Free solaris 10 dvds mailed to you http://www2.sun.de/dc/forms/reg_us_2307_197.jsp

Mailed to you at no charge.

The set contains

• Solaris 10 DVD for SPARC installations

• Solaris 10 DVD for x86 installations

• Developer Tools DVD

Sun Studio 11

Sun Java Studio Creator 2

Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8

NetBeans 5.0

Uh oh………..

Nah, It’s not by Macro$oft (circa Greg. S. 2005) , just another sourceforge project to make Window apps look like Linux’s.

Win-get is an automated install system and repository for win32 based apps. Written in Pasca(command line Client), also another variant in PHP(just browser based). It also performs silent install, and conveniently deletes the install file. It even uses its’ ‘wget.exe’ to download packages.

One step closer to Linux, but a million steps needed to come close to Linux.
Next step, get rid of Steve Balmer.

• Get the dependencies
• Get the source
• Configure and Install (Estimated time: 3-4 minutes of installing.)
• Congratulations and Good day
• This was only tested on Ubuntu 7.04
  

Note, compiling from the source doesn’t necessarily give you all the proper dependencies. That’s why you implement apt-get. Fortunately I found out all the required packages. You can choose which ones you’d like to install, but in my opinion, all are either required or recommended for Pidgins functionality.

 

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libnspr-dev gettext libnss-dev

Autogen also needs these files above ^^. If you desire spell checking, add libgtkspell-dev in the command. If you’d like to install every single dependencies/package from Pidgin/Gaim. Formly. All packages can be upgraded to latest via apt-get respoitories .

This installs a bunch of dev packages. Also make sure the package “build-essential is installed! The reason that it’s ‘gaim’ . Is when Ubuntu 7.04 was released, Pidgin was known as Gaim(obviously). As such, the ‘build-dep’ for gaim is used to get the deps for Pidgin 2.02.1.

Alright, now download the latest source code. Get the latest from www.pidgin.im . If you’re installing this purely from the terminal. In my case the latest stable version if 2.02(by the time of writing it’s version 2.02). Just ‘wget’ the file via sourceforge.

http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pidgin/pidgin-2.0.2.tar.bz2

Now extract it. And Change directories

tar xvfj pidgin-2.0.2.tar.bz2 cd pidgin-2.0.2

./configure

make

sudo make install

That should be it. Find it in Apps&gt;Internet Pidgin …..You should have no problems with package dependencies. Remember apt-get will not upgrade the newest Pidgin for you . So do this until Ubuntu imports Pidgin in it’s repositories, you’ll have to upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon, later on. Like most will.

Have fun with Pidgin.

The dilemma about Firefox under Linux is that its form widgets look a tad bit indecent.Thankfully, Osmo Salomaa created a nice set of replacement widgets that really clean up the interface, and the assemblage over at Ubuntu forums compiled up a quick script for installing/removing the widget patch. It’s a big upswing, unless you’re into the whole super-aliased, shadow-casting widgets, Windows GUI based kinda thing. Comlied by Fatsheep on Ubuntu Forums

Current Ver: 2.6 is released (July 11th 2007)

Before:

After:

Instllation is straight forward and simple, cd to the directory you extracted the firefox widgets to and execute install script (./install command). Now you’re exposed to the Firefox Widget Installer, make sure you are installing to the path of your Firefox directory. By default script installs to /usr/lib/firefox, as does installation location when installing firefox. I don’t see why this shouldn’t be your directory, unless you could give a good reasonnn.

Good day, and have fun with widgets mod -Larry

Bill Gates, the omnipotent giant from Microsoft is not the richest man on earth. Carlos Slim, has a richness esteem(or account I should say) in US$67.8 billion ,taking Bill’s place. American Móvil company, which is the most superlative and largest mobile cell phone company in Latin America. It’s the largest and most profitable business of Slim. Gates still has a small quantity of U$59.2 Bi. And keep in mind that he gives a great portion of his money to charity, otherwise he would be substantially richer then Carlos.

Vista just not selling, Billy?

Blog Life Update: I’ve recently been REALLY lenient posting on this thing. The last time I posted was during April Fools. More or less, ~ 3 months without posting. School is out, summer is in.

∞

I came across this program that will install Ubuntu, It creates a virtual HDD partition ,installation into a loopmounted virtual partition, with no partitioning necessary. So you can run both Windows & Ubuntu Linux. It Works somewhat like virtualization software.The peeps at Webi say that Ubuntu is installed within a file in the windows file system (c:\wubi\disks\system.virtual.disk), and this file “tricks” Linux to assuming that it’s a Hard disk. Although this is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows, there is speculation that it will be official in the near future. For now Wubi is an independent product,and is currently in beta, so play it fair. Wubi is not intended to be a permanent install. It should be used to determine beforehand ,if you want to permanently install Ubuntu on an actual partition, or better yet on a reversed HDisk. I believe that it doesn’t work with Vista. If you have a problem, I guess it was your fault trashing your money in the gutter for that product. You can select the different desktop environments within Wubi. Wubi is also free/open-source software, licensed under the GNU GPL.

Wubi Screenshots

Cheers! And have fun experimenting/testing with Ubuntu! -Larry

∞

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Happy Greg? 

Everyone admires GMail, but not necessarily the whole concept of email in its entirety.You can get a physical copy of any message at your request. No limits,its absolutely free,without the irrelevant postage stamp,but you your physical copies of email on high-quality, glossy photo paper, and secured to your Gmail Paper with a paper clip. You would think Google being,well lets just leave it to be Google , would care about the environment,and try to help conserve our pulpwood trees .Not a problem. Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer (recycled) organic soybean sputum, so it actually helps the environment. Dude this isn;t a hoax, it’s even on Google’s website. Check it out

I have no idea about what to do with this blog, what’s its sole function, its purpose? I couldn’t believe myself earlier, ‘Download of the Month’ ,what the heck was I thinking It seems like a bunch of miscellaneous crap, although that defines my life right there. Just kidding.

- Till next time

This is a really hysterical prank done to the innocently ignorant. If only everyone used Ubuntu.

“

My father heard about Vista coming on the news. Since he was interested in getting it, he asked me to obtain it and i install it on his computer and he would give some cash in return. I told him I was going to do that, but instead I burned an Ubuntu CD and installed it.

Later, when he came home from work, I showed him his new “Vista” install, complete with the latest Office and Solitaire.

Well, it’s been a few days since that and now he says Bill Gates is better than Steve Jobs and brags about how OS X on my iMac is obsolete compared to Vista on his PC.

I will continue with the prank for some weeks, after which I’ll tell him the truth and give him back his money.

“

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Please Circle Your Answer

Are you FOR or AGAINST the legalization of abortion

Y/N

So.. is that for or against?

Also, abortion is ALREADY legalized….how can it be legalized again?

So.. who’s religious back is round?’

Flock test…

Blogged with Flock

Well its winter cleaning, mkdir DesktopCrap, move *.* DesktopCrap.

It’s comforting to know that no matter what you do in life, it will never be as awesome as this picture.

The purpose of this tutorial is that ,we often use school/office/other connections, customarily those services are set to provide more security ,restrciting the access to unnecessary web sites .An example,in my school we have a blacklist of websites that our school district doesn’t want us to acess. What you can do now is use Google translator service…the language tools ..as a proxy to bypass the restrictions set for our connection.

1. Type http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.ISHOULDNTBEONTHISWEBSITE.com (ISHOULDNTBEONTHISWEBSITE stands for the website you need to go that might be black listed by this connection
   
2. Notice langpair is set to en|en” (english/english),that means that it will be translated from English....to English.
3. That is all…Bye….Have fun with this tutorial of harmless “hacking”.

I’ve liked meebo so much that I’ve like to put an honorable mention on my blog about Meebo. Its a awesome AJax based insttant messenging cilent. . ,its still in beta but work in progress =p.

This is the only codec ,basically you’ll ever need, with Real Media Player Alternative and Quicktime Player Alternative.

ffdshow is DirectShow and VFW codec, it decodes almost anything you want and need.

Get it at SourceForge……. Lets all hop on the open source bandwagon =p

Heres the link

Boy have I waited for this. I’ll be so happy to start getting Ubuntu CD’s,rather than AOL CDs.

The above billboard was spotted near the Ralston exit in Redwood City, USA

You know that logon screen when you sign onto AIM,that vexing AOL Buddy Icon guy, well it turns out that ,that image is actually supported by a .bmp. I discovered that I could use ResHack, since it’s  always been suitable resource editing and things of that nature.

http://www.users.on.net/~johnson/downloads/reshack.zip

First obtain ResHack, it’s a really useful tool if you have a clue as to what you’re doing.It allows you modify resources in 32bit Windows .exes and resource files. It also has a very neat build in sciprtiting complier to test out your hacks. A few preliminary things: Make sure you close AIM fully. Taskkill aim.exe or simply exit the program.

1. Install ResHack….blah blah extract .zip, if you don’t have a decompression program,get tugZIP, a freeware tool,or WinRAR
2. FindingAIM’s resource: namely  file AimRes.dll,-the .dll is considered a WIN32 Pe file.
3. Open the reshack executable
4. Press ctrl+O, or just File–>Open–>now go to My Computer > C Drive > Program Files > AIM ( It should be AIM ,try find variants of it ). Find AimRes.dll, and Open it. . If you still,-you in all likely hood have AIM Triton,which I don’t recommend getting,as it has a horrible user interface,the development team at AOL didn’t have time to put in advance settings in the UI.
5. Now once you open your ResHack tool it should look like this
6. 
7. Now,open GIFDATA > 103 > 1033. Make sure to write GIFDATA under resource type, 103 under name and 1033 under language
8. Then, Go to action, Replace other Resource.
9. Click on Open file with new resource.
10. Now choose the image you want by browsing. Make sure this image must is in  .GIF format and  has the dimensions of 190×150. You can customize own or chance upon one off the net and compress the dimesions  it with countless freeware programs out there.
11. Now fill in the boxes Resource Type, resource Name, . And then press Replace.

NOW!!!! MAKE SURE TO SAVE THE FILE TO THE SPECIFIC DIRECTORY AND OVERWRITE IT.

12. For all inquires about this tutorial simpy comment this post and I’ll give my best effort to reply.

Thanks for you time

This was only tested for  AIM 5.9,but theoretically it  should work for previous versions,I’m not quite sure if this will work for Triton.

-Larry

I totally agree with what Zidane did to Materazzi.

Materazzi against Shevchenko in AC Milan .HE IS MENTALLY DERANGED BLOCKHEAD,son of a bitch.

This just pisses me off to an infinite state.

Materazzi is a stupid fool, he elbowed Sorin in the eye too. This man should never be allowed to touch a football ever again.

No wonder they’re lots of Rumors that Italy is cheating.
ARGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

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Italy WON the Wolrd Cup..Pity Zidane had to leave like that with a red card leaving at the same time he was leaving his soccer carrer.

Ukraine lost to Italy 3-0 ……

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Its all over for the Swiss

Ukraine got 3 goals in a row

Ukraine 3-0 Swiss

I’ve been going mad about this Game. Ukraine seems to have good defences and possession but they just can’t seem to make a goal. Speaking of AMAZING defence . In the 13th minute, the Swiss Raphael Wicky had a shot on goal from long proximity, forcing Ukraine goal  keeper Oleksandr(Slavic version of Alexander) Shovkovskyi into an  insane acrobatic block. There have been plenty of fouls in the match.

School’s Out!!!!!!!!!!!…..I’ll post some new stuff later on…..

More and more ISP's are restraining BitTorrent traffic, or plan to do so is growing every day, and according to the BBC, the ‘bandwidth war’ has commenced. Are you not sure if your traffic is being mointored check the list of bad internet service providers. But there is a answer. Encrypting your torrents will prevent ISP’s from controling your traffic. I will explain how to enable encryption in Azureus,a BitTorrent cilent that I use,and one that is the most popular cilent. So Whats the Point of Encryption? Azureus offers RC4 encryption. This encryption algorithm makes it extremely hard for your ISP to detect that the traffic you are making comes from torrents. The downside for low-performance PC's is that using this encryption increase the memory usage on Azenus and CPU usage on your computer. Alright so lets get started

1. Go to: Tools > Options > Connection > Transport Encryption

2.Check the ‘require encrypted transport’ box.

3.Choose RC4 in the ‘minimum encryption’ dropdown box

4.You can check ‘Allow non-encrypted outgoing connections if encrypted connection attempt fails’ box. This will make certain the compatibility with clients that are not using encryption. But, theres a downside, it makes your connections more exploited for your ISP to detect torrenttraffic. You might want to check this first if you can't seed properly on Azureus

5.Check ‘Allow non-encrypted incoming connections’ box Your final result should look like this.

Enjoy!

3 Steps for Making Scratched CDs Work Again

Instructables.com published a 3 step article on how to re-surface CDs so they work again. All you’re going to need is a Paper towel, Polishing cloth and a Can of Brasso Metal Polish; the article details everything needs to be done, which is not too complicated at all.

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Microsft made public a new photo format it claims will provide better quality at half the size of a JPEG image. Windows Media Photo (WMP) will be built into the next-generation of Windows, called Vista. Some guy named Bill Crow, a senior program manager for WMP said "WMP will easily enable 25:1 compression ratios for most uses of digital photography. That compares to a maximum of about 12:1 for consumer JPEG images before images visibly degrade." To maintain compatibility with existing systems uses a TIFF' container,limiting to only ~ 4 Gigs (2³² –1 bytes) for each file,but heck thats way more than enough for ANYONE for one picture.

There are numerious amouts of FireFox extensions out on the web. Which ones do you use? Here is my attempt to collect the most |337 and popular FireFox extensions which make your browsing, downloading, voyagging,or whatever the heck you do on FireFox easier.

• Please Note : Most of these extensions work on the latest version of the Firefox Broswer<V 1.5>. Whenever the broswer updates so do the extensions(most of them)
• You can always uninstall a extension that doesn't fit your needs simply by going to Tools—>Extensions—>click on the extension and click uninstall. OR if you really easy you can install this FireFox extension called Extension Uninstaller.

Heres my list of top extension for FirefoxTabbrowser

1. Tab Mix Plus  ('Now even more Bitchin')
   
2. Tabbrowser Preferences
3. Restart Firefox
4. Sessionsaver (don't know where i would be without this one)
5. Viamatic foXpose (for MAC OS x wanna-bes)
6. Firefox Showcase (similar to Viamatic foXpose)
7. WebMailCompose – changes mailto links to your default email cilent,on FireFox that is
8. IE Tab (some pages look different when used with IE ,you decide which one is best NOTE:this doesn't use FireFox it uses its the IE process iexplore.exe)
9. FlashGot (download manager)
10. PDF Download(asks you if you want to open or download a .pdf)
11. DownThemAll! (beats going to firefox page info everytime)
12. FireFTP(free FTP cilent)
13. Fasterfox – Speed up Firefox .Didn't really do much for me but give it a tryGoogleGoogle
14. Images Re-Link -this will let you click the thumbnail images on images.google.com, skip the referred framed page, and jump straight to the full-size image.
15. ScreenGrab! – capture screenshots and save webpages as images easily.
16. gTranslate – Translate thorginally a page to a desirebox,thisge.Hint its good also for getting past those stingy school blockers
17. GoogleToolbar (Google toolbar,best popup blocker also!)
18. FoxyTunes – Listen to music while surfing the Web,works on your status bar
19. gSpace This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2728.581738 MB and counting) for file storage. It acts as a remote machine.
20. AutoHide One thing i didn't like about FireFox,and its proablay the only was that when you entered full screen,it really didn't do full screen,IE has full screen with auto-hide on the top bar,but good thing theres an extension for this.

If there is some favorite FireFox extension you use which deserves a mention here, post it in comments.

Heres the link:

COM-port Winamp Control V.1.42

I don't know where i would be would WikiMedia services.

• Wiktionary
• Wikibooks
• Wikiquote
  
• Wikisource
• Wikispecies

• Wikinews
• Commons

and last but not least Wikipedia,but now there WikiMap.Web site WikiMapia is a Google Maps- like -service that lets users add call-out sections to any area on Google Maps. The site is intended to be a Wikipedia-like reference for the planet. WikiMapia :-0 (be in awe)

Wikimapia=Wiki+google maps

This is a tutorial that shows you how to make a external winamp control using the COM port in your computer. Explained with many pictures.

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Firefox extension DragAndDropUpload, in case you haven’t fiqured, lets you drag and drop files into uploads fields.

This is a useful extension to have when you’re uploading files and you’ve already got the folder open and don’t feel like digging through the Open File dialog to get to where you already are. Instead, just drag and drop the files one-by-one from the folder into the upload box.

Firefox Extension

Alarm Clock Hack

GRC